Route 9

Yuck

There are Stewart's Shops all over Upstate New York. Some of them have been renovated and others have not. There is one in Saratoga County that has been well overdue for an upgrade. It will be renovated, but it will also be in a new, bigger location.

If you were tied up in traffic on Route 9 this morning, here's why.

There are thirty-seven acres that are slated to be sold in a prime area along Route 9/Loudon Road in Cohoes. It's a peculiar area because even though Oreshan Farm has been there for years, housing developments around it have been booming. There are plans to build more housing at that farm, but a lawsuit says, "not so fast".

If you travel along Route 9 in Halfmoon, you know that there has been a lot of work being done on the old Romano's restaurant and more recently a meeting place for the NXIVM cult. This was a cult that had headquarters in the Albany area and the heads of NXIVM lived in Halfmoon. It will be a brand new restaurant and we now know when it will open.

As you can tell, the disk is very large spilling over into the two lanes of Route 9 heading north. I guess when you need four troopers to escort you, it's either for safety or national security.

I live in the Town of Halfmoon and I love it. We have so many local restaurants and shops and now a developer is going to make an already popular shopping plaza into something he calls a "walking community".

Let construction season continue. There is a long stretch of Route 9 that will be getting a makeover which means lane closures through Malta and part of Saratoga. The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) will begin resurfacing that part of the roadway starting today.

Road construction crews will be out starting today (Tuesday, February, 4th) repairing potholes along 787 and Route 9. Expect some delays and rotating lane closures.

We each have plenty of memories at that space and finally, after sitting empty for a couple of years, we finally know what we can expect there.

If you ask most people in the Capital Region, the best place for fish frys is Ted's. Well now Saratoga County has a Ted's Fish Fry location to call their own.

I understand that this is a very dividing time in not only our country but we're even feeling it here locally. Yes, we have the right to free speech but should there be a line with banners like this?